I’ve used various herbal tinctures to try to get the last of any lyme, lyme confections, mycoplasmas or any other unwelcomed bacteria I might be carrying. I believe cats claw comes as a tincture too, if you don’t like pills, but I’m not positive cause so many of these herbs have multiple names and Latin names that are used interchangeably. Cats Claw is one of the few I haven’t used…. sorry.

If your interested in herbs, Steven Buhner writes some incredible books on them including Cats Claw. He’s very thorough and cites countless sources. If you got question, I think he’s the best source around! He provides data from multiple cultures but also plenty of antidotal info from his huge following. In his books he also addresses the controversy of using immune stimulating herbs verses immune modulating herbs. He also addresses how some herbs might affect thyroid and hormone levels. Interesting stuff!

It has been so long ago that I studied it. But I remember there was something in it that I was not comfortable with and now I don’t remember what it was. I would have to study it again.

Yes, I really believe Virus’ are one of the root causes. They’ve already proven links btw one and hashimoto’s and another and cervical dysplasia. I don’t think it’s the only trigger though… I think it teams up with other root causes such as yeast, bacteria, mycoplasma, lyme and together a variety of things take a person into autoimmunity or cancer. Just my take on it. I do think their are different strains of the same virus and that’s why what appears to be same thing, affects people differently. I think its worthwhile to go after all the root causes or as many as someone can manage to find.

Sometimes in alternative or functional medicine, theres intense debates on what makes a person sick. Some say diet, chemicals, toxins, mold, emf’s,bacteria, virus’, lyme, stress, emotions and on and on. I basically think theres a bit of truth in everything and we keep checking things off our list that we’re capable of doing until we find our way back to health. 🙂

As for virus’, I’ve used Lomatium, Isatis, Usnea and a couple others that also treated lyme and other confections. Virus’ herbs is where I herxed the worst, so I really think that was a piece of the puzzle for me.

I had difficulty taking cat’s claw. It is very similar to the fluoroquinolones (cipro, Levaquin). My tendons hurt terribly when I tried cat’s claw…a known side effect from the fluoroquinolones. Not sure if the reaction is genetic but thought I’d mention it.

Yes. It was my genetic pattern that made me wary of it.